House of the Dead
Mill Creek Entertainment | Release Date: October 10, 2003 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
15
METASCORE
Overwhelming dislike based on 15 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
2
Negative:
13
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
50
VarietyDennis Harvey
Whether this is a good or bad thing depends on just how much 14-year-old boy you've got in ya. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
There's scarcely a whiff of originality in the zombie horror picture House of the Dead, but Uwe Boll has directed it with enough energy and style that it adds up to passably mindless if grisly fun. Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Director Uwe Boll wholeheartedly embraces the film's concept, and with some fancy editing and a pulsing soundtrack, the effect really is like watching a video game. Read full review
30
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Dull and unimaginative. Read full review
25
Chicago TribuneLoren King
Unimaginatively recycles all the teens-in-the-woods gorefest conventions. Read full review
25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey
Somewhere between cartoonishly bad for comic effect and bad because the filmmakers didn't really give a damn, The House of the Dead is, at least, unpretentiously dumb. Read full review
25
Boston GlobeTy Burr
House of the Dead, sadly, is so bad it's bad. Read full review
20
The New York TimesDave Kehr
Does little more than add another title to the very long list of movies influenced by George Romero's 1968 horror classic, "Night of the Living Dead." Read full review
20
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
Much poorly choreographed gunplay, many lovingly rendered head explosions, and some half-assed exposition about centuries-old, immortality-seeking pirates follow, with nothing to recommend House Of The Dead to anyone but the most undiscriminating zombie-movie fans. Read full review
20
Film ThreatDavid Grove
Here’s a would-be horror film that contains not one ounce of professional pride in its making, not one shred of technical competence. This is one of the worst films of recent times. Read full review
20
The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck
Laughable performances. Read full review
20
Dallas ObserverLuke Y. Thompson
Prochnow rocks; nothing else does. Read full review
0
New York PostLou Lumenick
Based on a video game, far exceeds expectations -- in negative ways that inspire thoughts of less than zero stars. Read full review
0
Entertainment WeeklyScott Brown
To properly convey the jaw-dropping shoddiness of this videogame-based ''horror'' ''movie,'' one must approach what scientists call Absolute Stupid, a state previously thought to exist only under highly controlled laboratory conditions or at the highest levels of government. Read full review
0
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
It’s cheese of the purest stripe, bafflingly bad to the point of being oddly charming in its brain dead naïveté. Read full review
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